SaaStr

APRIL 26, 2024

On an adoption basis, there have been some “green shoots,” particularly with Klaviyo and the impact they’ve had bringing AI from a project siloed or customer interface level and into their core business where they’ve automated 700 humans and over two-thirds of their customer success. Why is Klaviyo noteworthy?

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AI Search AI Artificial Intelligence Scale 211

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Meghan Gill, SVP of Sales Ops and Sales Dev at MongoDB, shares different consumption-based compensation models that drive the right behaviors. What’s evolved over the years and is driven by hyper-scalers like Google Azure, AWS, Twilio, and Stripe is the consumption-based model. It was creating friction in the sales cycle.

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Compensation Sales Azure AWS 161

Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Hyperscalers Report Quarterly Earnings This week we saw AWS (Amazon), GCP (Google) and Azure (Microsoft) report earnings. Overall, it wasn’t pretty… AWS grew 28% when expectations were 30-31%. At the same time, Azure came in below expectations. Follow along to stay up to date!

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Cloud Azure AWS Cost optimization & reporting 130

SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The role of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Marketplace is becoming increasingly important. “45% What each of these shares in common is a reflection of the immediate post-sales experience. Categories like customer success, learning management platforms, and onboarding software are witnessing increased investments. .

Software Review 198

Software Review Software Azure Cloud 198

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

This is why we’re seeing more and more SaaS companies—Datadog, Twilio, AWS, Snowflake, and Stripe, to name a few—find success with product led growth paired with usage-based pricing. Usage-based pricing will be the key to successful monetization in the future. Then they tell their boss what to buy. Land-and-expand is real.

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Scale Pricing Scaling AWS 98

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. Before Tidelift, Bridget was VP of Sales @ Logz.io and before that was VP of Corporate Sales @ Sumo Logic where she drove ARR up by a record 237%. Who has done this well?

Sales Hiring 192

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 192

Sales Hacker

MARCH 10, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Nicole Wojno Smith , the VP of Marketing at Tackle.io. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Tackle had a lot more revenue and more customers than UserIQ did when I joined, but they just haven’t had a marketing presence yet.

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Sales Hiring Scale Marketing AWS 73